Now the outer garment is in faded violet. The obi is brocaded on a green ground with a design in yellow, rose, green, black and white. There are touches of rose elsewhere. The umbrella is yellow and black.
We place the print next to number 88 as the central sheet of a triptych the right-hand sheet of which has not survived.
The subject has been reproduced from one impression in the Vignier-Inada Catalogue, number 318, Rumpf number 87, and by Noguchi. The one we exhibit is the only one in America.
Hosoye. Gray ground. Signed: Sharaku.
Museum of Fine Arts (Spaulding Collection).
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